[Vanhackspace] Fwd: [Noisebridge-discuss] GNURadio/USRP, Eagle, and Open Source

[dan anderson]

Do I sense a Learning Kicad night in the works? ;-)

-D

2009/12/26 Joe Bowser <bowserj at gmail.com>:
> This may be relevant to our interests!
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Eric Michaud <michaud.eric.c at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 6:43 AM
> Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] GNURadio/USRP, Eagle, and Open Source
> To: Noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>
>
> Mitch has said I should put a feeler here.
>
> USRP(/Universal Software Radio Peripheral)/ is the base radio board for
> the GNURadio software radio project.  It can be used for manipulating
> the airwaves, generating a GSM Base station, WiFi, or doing pure
> research in next generation algorithms for high speed data processing
> over the air.
>
> It claims to be an Open Source project, but I find that it really isn't
> that open. Ettus Research the company which sells the boards doesn't
> release the gerber, PCB, or eagle files, just a pdf with the schematic
> traces and nothing else. Which doesn't really allow lots of people to
> send off the designs to a PCB house or rework the design to work with
> something they want to do, or take two of the control ports on it off,
> and make it half the size.(Among many other things one could do, OR
> IMPROVE IT!)
>
>
>
> Comments by Eric Blossom of GNURadio/USRP folks.
> http://old.nabble.com/USRP---USRP2-td23093717.html
>
> What they have released as per the email.
> http://www.ettus.com/download
>
> By virtue of this I'm a little torn, and a little motivated now.
>
> The main reasons I'm doing this is because I want to modify the boards
> to work in smaller footprint and I don't need the 4 ports just 2. Plus
> the $750 is a quite a bit steep for what I need it do it.
>
> So it's non-trivial to make your own boards as I've seen and I would
> love if Eric Blossom and Matt Ettus would release the files to the
> community which they can. I hope they do. Would save a lot of work on my
> part, as they have already done it. If not, I'll put in the time to
> generate them and release them fully crediting their work on it.
>
> Now I was wondering who would be interested in working temporarily on
> converting these schematics into actual gerber and eagle files. Hell I
> could would do most of the work(essentially all) myself but I don't have
> copy of eagle that can do more than the standard 100 MM size boards.
>
> If anyone has some interest in opening this up a bit more, you can
> contact me off list. Again I could do the whole thing myself I just
> don't have a full version of eagle to do it. ;)
>
> Cheers,
> -Eric.
> Pumping Station: One
>
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